Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

clothing on the children. vigor in the
body, intelligence in the brain, and
spirit in the whole constitutien.-Ben-
janain Franklin.
DRUNKARD's soLILoQUY.
By G. s. Garrett.
Once more wend my weary footsteps home'
Once more pass beneath that gided dome
Whose towering spire casts long, dark
shade
Across the tomb in which my mothers iaid.
Once more l pause within that old church
door,
And gaze upon the smooth old oaken hoor'
Where oft heard my mother, kneeling, pray
That God would guide her, lead her, in the
That would become His cause, and that
alone;
That /, her SON, my duty should be shown,
And from the paths of sin be lifted up
Ere had learned to drain that fatal cup
That cup, the cause of My dear fathers
death,
The demon that consumed his vital breath;
That comfort to her might be,
In health sustained, and in eternity
We both should meet, and clasp each others
hands,
And there together tread Gods holy lands.
Alas! in yonder lonely, tufted mound,
Where nought doth wake the stillHess so
profound,
Her body, long resigned to mother earth,
Lies molderlng in the dust that gave it birth
Her spirit to its Author, God, that flown,
Hath passed away into the great unknown;
There all seems dark to my poor weary soul,
And darkness into nothingness doth roll.
And vet know that shall soon be laid.
Low in the ground beneath that church
spires shade.
Shall I, alas! against my mothers will,
Still follow on, drunkard's grave to fill?
oh, that 1 meier had drank the poisoned
draught
My mother warned me, but only laughed;
My friends advised me, but l turned away.
To follow on my destined wanton way.
OGod, in pity from Thy throne of grace,
Look down upon this sinful, upturned face
Remove this fiery, burning, mad desire
That drags me deeper down into the mire;
RAISE up my spirit from the darkenine
gloom,
And save me from the awe-inspiring doom,
That hangs above me the guillot's knife
Hangs o'er its victim, ready for his life.
A FEW FACTS RELATIVE TO TOBACCO
8. Resale Sill.
We deem it our duty, to point out tf
those contemplating marriage, the
curse entailed through using tobacco
We have heard many assert that the
laws of heredity were "all moonshine;;'
yet we only testify of "that We DE-
know"
Years ago, a young man well known
to us, married. Children were borl
until they had seven sons-not posses
sing them all at once, though. Nom
CT these boys lived to be over thre
years of ACCESSIBILITY, not over one
all dying with what physcianst erme'
''brain trouble.r When the fifth chill,
died, several medical gentlemen hell
an autopsy, deciding: brain troubl
resulting through herdity. Cause, ex
cessive use of tobacco by the father.
We were present when the last Cd
died, and we shall never forget tn
mothers agony as she cried out, "Oh
my God! must poor little George go a
the rest have done!' Who can imagin
the feelings of those parents as the.
stood by the row oflIttle graves-seve
of then1-only think of it? Could tn
Injury of a self-indulgence appease til
sorrow of SO great a bereavement?
We know of another family, who's
father not only uses tobacco excessive
ly, but intoxicants also; three of hi
sons cannot walk, having to use wheel
ed chairs as their only means of loco
motion. These boys appeared to be a
right until the age of seven, when
slight paralysis commenced, increasin
more rapidly at about thirteen, whe
all use of the lower limbs ceased. Thes
cases have resulted-or have been pre-
nounced to have resulted - throug
heredity; tobacco the chief cause.
Still another faith er whom we know
has thorough excessive use of tobacc
entailed kleptomania upon his thre
The father is an honest, esteemed cit
zen, descending from a goodly line
ancestors; the mother most estimabl
woman; yet the sons will take totace
wherever they can find it; and i'm cas-
they do not come across it, take som.
thing which will buy it.
In the face of these facts would it
wise for young woman to marry
tobacco user? Is it reasonable for
young man to form habit entailn
such results? These are not isolate
cases. We know of others where PEI
haps there were not so many cursed i
one family, yet one victim, at Teas
was sacrificed upon the altar of self,
diligence. Tobacco using is not sa
thing to do. Many young man hs
bis mental faculties clouded, til
"brght-boy" merging into very con
mon-place man, just because OF it. "
have had young men confess to us tn,
tobacco had destroyed, in a great mea
ure, their will-power.
Tobacco has been the first step
leading many young man to a DRUM